Overemployment
Etymology
The plain word "overemployment" once meant simply working too much, but its current sense was popularized around 2021 by the community and website Overemployed. Distributed remote work severed the old link between "being at a job" and "being watched at a desk," which made stacking jobs practical. The term names both the practice and the movement that celebrates it.
noun · /OH-ver-em-PLOY-munt/
Secretly holding two or more full-time jobs at once, typically remote, without any of the employers knowing about the others.
What it names
A handle for a strategy that remote work made newly viable — treating a salaried job as a set of deliverables to be juggled rather than a claim on all your time.
Example
He confessed to a friend that he’d been quietly overemployed for a year, running two engineering roles from the same laptop.
Related idea
A side hustle is openly one’s own venture; overemployment is covertly holding multiple employers’ full-time jobs, and depends on none of them finding out.